I'm a DC-based,
neurodivergent, primarily self-taught
multidisciplinary artist.
Under the pseudonym S. Smith, I've thrice contributed to Street Sense — a DC-based newspaper produced
by and for people
experiencing homelessness and poverty.
I sometimes incorporate my own lived experience
into my practice.
Currently,
my visual art focuses
primarily on
geometric
abstraction via transparency
paintings — particularly with thinly layered color against opaque backgrounds.
I aim to contrast and reconcile clarity and honesty with the
questionable
and hidden,
and investigate what the authentic self truly means.
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My recent literary art has features of
poetry
and prose — yet doesn't fit the present definition of
versiprose nor prosimetrum.
As of now, they're
either "genre homeless", in a nonexistent and/or
an
unnamed
genre
outside the current literary taxonomy.
Or worse, living in the all-consuming void, a hell-hole named
"hybrid."
Presently, I explore various topics: the unhoused nature of my works, death, the surreal, and errors
through a
philosophical lens.
In addition to these, I create whatever else comes to mind. On occasion, accidents do occur in my writings, especially via a stream of consciousness headspace.
These
imperfections
sometimes inform and inspire future literary and visual works, and occasionally, I choose to keep them in the finalized piece — they become part of
the
art
itself.
Contact me:
artist@xoie.art
Selected Literary Works:
